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Hilal Isler
writer. editor.
educator.
Twin cities. Turkish Roots.
about
Hilal Isler’s writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the Brooklyn Review, New York magazine, the LA Review of Books online, and in McSweeney’s.
She's been awarded residency at Yaddo, and MacDowell, was a 2019 Roxane Gay writing fellow with the Jack Jones Literary Arts Association, and a 2022 Periplus fellow, under the mentorship of author Dina Nayeri.
Her work has been recognized and funded by the Jerome Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She reads for the literary journal Ploughshares. Her doctorate is from the University of Pennsylvania, and she is founding editor of the Hennepin Review.
She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with her family.
select writing
The believer
NY MAGAZINE
PARIS REVIEW
lit hub
catapult
KHADIJAH NUMBER TWO
MCSWEENEY'S
*STORY AVAILABLE IN PRINT ONLY
LA REVIEW OF BOOKS
hello@reallygreatsite.com
BROOKLYN REVIEW
9/11
NEW MOONS
*STORY AVAILABLE IN PRINT ANTHOLOGY ONLY (RED HEN PRESS)
awards & fellowships
2018, 2019
2021
Pen/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers (nominee)
website design/build by me! 2023
2022